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Conference

Legal Empowerment of the Poor:
Exploring the Legal Dimension

March 3-4 2010
Lund

The Lund University Initiative on Legal Empowerment of the Poor was organizing a conference  3-4 March 2010, which focused on exploring the legal dimension of the initiative. The Conference was organized by LUCSUS – LEP in collaboration with University of Oslo (SUM) – ANLEP (www.sum.uio.no/research/networks/anlep/)

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Presentations at the conference:

Christina Halling
Child Rights at the International and National Levels. Translating the Convention on the Rights of the Child into National Policy against Sexual Abuse in Uganda (pdf) »
Presentation (pdf) »

Ellen Hillbom
Struggle for Water. An inquiry into legal empowerment and property rights formation in Meru area, Tanzania (pdf) »
Presentation (pdf) »

Lennart Olsson
Opening speech
Presentation (pdf) »

Seodi White
MAKING THE LAW WORK FOR WOMEN IN MALAWI
Challenges and Successful Strategies (pdf) »

Urban Jonsson
Legal Empowerment of the Poor and Human Rights:
Is there Conflict or a Synergy? (pdf) »

Yahia Mahmoud
E-waste and Environmental Justice: the case of Cameroon
Presentation (pdf) »

Fieldwork reports

Tim Taylor
Nina Šrot
Björn Gunnarsson

Sustainable Enterprises for Sustainable Development:
A Kenyan case study into the potential of a Legal Empowerment of the Poor approach to nurturing sustainable enterprises (pdf) »

Presentation as a video »

Jaleh Taheri
A Study of Female Business Rights in Iran
Arguments for Process Oriented Methods of Legal Empowerment (pdf) »

Lucas Le Provost
Sand, oil or cog in the water system clockwork...
How legal empowerment can frame the role that private water providers will play in Kathmandu's water supply. (pdf file) »

Martina Angela Caretta
Access to credit and financial literacy: pathways to women’s legal empowerment
A case study of women credit and saving schemes in Kisumu, Kenya. (pdf) »

Tina Kolhammar
Poverty and Legal Empowerment
A Minor Field Study of South African Farm Workers and Dwellers (pdf) »